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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicDelhi Mumbai expressway

Topic: Delhi Mumbai expressway

Life on India’s shiny new expressways—sleeping truck drivers, jugaad, and secret dhabas

ThePrint was on board Gaffar’s truck as he told the story of a transforming highway landscape while driving on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway through a sandstorm.

Chambal Ravines are now safe because of new roads. But Indians must learn how to drive

The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana roads have opened up economic opportunities but they will be pointless if average Indian user doesn’t know how to use them.

Once a Surat diamond heiress, this 9-yr-old is now a Jain nun living in a ‘bubble-like sansaar’

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is impressive but Indians’ driving lanes apart

Seeing me drive on this 10-lane road in a powerful German-built convertible with the roof down, you could have said I was in the American north-east.

Delhi to Jaipur in 4 hours — PM to inaugurate 1st stretch of Delhi-Mumbai expressway on 12 Feb

Touted as country's longest, the entire 1,386 km expressway is likely to be operational by 2024. It will be the first in Asia & second in world to have overpasses for wildlife.

1,380 km long, 8 lanes, tunneling through sanctuary: All about Delhi-Mumbai Expressway

The Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is being built at an estimated cost of Rs 98,000 crore and is likely to be completed by March 2023.

Off The Cuff with Nitin Gadkari

In conversation with Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said India’s road infrastructure will be comparable to the...

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.